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Daffodils ; yellow ; nine to twelve inches. 



ISTarcissus ; white, yellow and white, orange ; twelve to 

 eighteen inches. 



Crown ImjDerials ; pale straw yellow, and orange ; two feet 



Lupinus pol}3)hyllus ; dark and light blue, white, blue and 

 white ; eighteen to twenty-four inches. 



Delphinium grandiflora ; grand dazzling blue ; three feet. 



Hollyhock ; black, red, purple, lilac, mottled, yellow, white, 

 &c.; six to ten feet. 



Dahlia ; shades of red, purple, rose, lilac, yellow, mottled, 

 tipped ; three to six feet. 



Columbine ; blue, red, white, and mottled ; two to three 

 feet. 



Pinks j white, and laced with rose, purple, dark, &c. ; twelve 

 inches. 



Carnations ; white, striped with rose, pui'ple, dark, &c. ; 

 two to three feet. 



Picotees ; white, laced with rose, purple, lilac, dark, &c. ; 

 two to three feet. 



Polyanthus ; yellow ground, blotched with dark-brown, 

 crimson, &c. ; six inches. 



Primrose ; double purple, double crimson, double white, 

 double straw-colour ; six inches. 



Hepatica ; red, double and single, white, ditto, double blue; 

 six inches. 



Yellow Alyssum ; bright yellow ; six iuches. 



Anemone ; single blue, red, rose, white, and mottled ; six 

 to nine inches. 



Eanunculus ; turban scarlet, six to nine inches. ' 



Scarlet Lychnis ; bright scarlet ; double, two feet. 



These are all excellent subjects, and may be placed where 

 there is a desire not to disturb ; but as they all figure in their 

 season, and some are not in flower more than a month or two 

 in the twelve, it may be a question whether any are permitted 

 to hold a permanent place in the garden. I^or is it at all 

 necessary that they should be all cultivated ; but there is this 

 advantage in keeping up a garden of succession, — you have, 

 independently of all the ordinary seasons, the chances of some 

 being later than usual, and others being earlier than usual, so 

 that you may always improve. There is scarcely a plant, 

 whether it be bulbous, tul^erous, or fibrous, Avhich may not 

 be well removed, if you take a full spit of earth with it, and 



